Border Security

The Trump Effect

I believe there
is a crisis at the border, one that existed before Trump, and one that must be
solved. But I believe he purposely made this crisis worse by manufacturing
situations that forced this issue to the ludicrous point of making an excuse to
declare a national emergency against the Constitution of the United States.

I support border security, but not the ridiculous two dimensional
“Trump divisive wall” approach. I believe that simplistic viewpoint is just a
blah blah point for him to rile up crowd chants and promote his apparent racist
ideologies using a partially legitimate issue and blowing it out of proportion.

It is my view that Trump chose to turn this border wall issue into
a fiasco of shutting down the government and ranting endlessly on his Twitter
account for nothing less than distractions from the great election loss of 2018
and the Mueller Investigation. Just think of the timing when these issue seem
to “surface” on a whim, and we can see patterns emerge as to potential “why’s”
that have nothing to do with a real
legitimate need. After his issues died down, for a season, what did we hear
about border security and walls? Crickets! This points to ulterior motives for
making it front and center.

I believe reasonable evidence of Trump’s divisive intent is clear
by his asking for another 8.3 billion for the October, 2019 budget. He KNOWS he
will not get it. There is zero chance. Yet, he asks for it. Why? I do not
believe it is over negotiation because the amount is too ridiculous. I believe
this issue gives him another future divisive card to pull out of his hat
anytime between now and “whenever” he wants to distract and divide and rile his
base.

While some invest their energy toward the future for peace, Trump
seems to be an equal and opposite force of sowing seeds of division he can
harvest at a later time for his own selfish purposes. And let’s be real: this
is NOT for the betterment of our nation. I am so shocked people really believe
he is creating strife and division in the best interest of America. That
bewilders me and also continues to point more toward a “Trump cult” of
followers than basic, simple common sense driving our American family.

But Trump’s focus on the wall is brilliantly disgusting in my
opinion. I think it is despicable for him to use real issues as fodder for
distraction against his present or future political problems. In addition, he
always seems to pick the easy low-hanging fruit of race, a lazy man’s way to
divide and stir without adding any real productive value for our country.
Through it, he incites further racial divide in this nation, which appears to
be Trump’s nature – to stir up controversy and remain at the center of
attention in the news at all times.
Maybe…. that could explain the 2018 holiday fiasco?? I don’t know, and I really
don’t care to figure out what exactly he is thinking, but I’ll try just this once.
Perhaps he saw boredom coming around holiday time, he was lonely, and in order
to keep the news on him, he needed the added attention because Congress was
gone? So he created the Trump shutdown. I don’t know what was going on in his
brain. But it was just plain foolish! That I DO know.

In reality, there is a real issue, so let’s look at the wall and
border security. Some of our border agents along the south have expressed the
difficult time they have in securing our border recently, partially due to the
lack of a physical barrier. Some residents along the border want more direct
security like a wall. Others do not. I listened carefully to Representative
Kinzinger, who was actually deployed on the southern border and he saw a
problem. He claims he saw drugs being smuggled across and the possibility of
human trafficking as well. This is a problem that we should address without a
doubt.

But Trump’s benign frenzy about terrorists appears to have been a
flat-out blatant lie. No evidence has ever been presented anywhere that states
otherwise as far as I know concerning the southern border. If or when it does,
then we would need to take serious notice. No one is saying it isn’t possible,
it just doesn’t appear to be any kind of impending danger at the moment.

In the early 2000’s, the same expression and very grave concerns
came from our northern border agents in response to known terrorists coming
into our nation from Canada and not even a fence existed between the two
nations for hundreds of miles along the border. That begs the question: why is
Trump focused on the southern border alone if not for selfish, racially
divisive nerves he is attempting to agitate for his own political and perhaps
bigoted motives? One terrorist from the north may do more damage than ten
thousand immigrants from the south.

Ok, fine. Some contend that Trump is on a mission against drugs,
but really? I would be on a mission against illegal hard drugs ruining our
society as well, but shut down the government and make our airport security
wallow while TSA workers and families suffer in order to bully the border issue
solely to solve drug trafficking which existed for decades? And why, if he is
using terrorists as a talking point for the southern border does he not mention
the northern border where the far greater danger of such exists? Also, if Trump
had concerns for, let’s say children and human trafficking…. If it was about
love for children, then why does he want to separate children from their
parents and put them in cages to live indefinitely? He doesn’t care about
children! He has proven that over and over with his callous, hard heart.

The Legitimate Issue

So, relating to a real wall, in certain cases, a physically high
barrier is clearly part of a holistic solution to the problem along our
borders, both north and south. I don’t think any democrat ever argues against that point and I wholeheartedly
support that. But in other cases, it is more practical for a significant double
low or high barrier with a buffer zone and patrolling agents with vehicles
within those buffers. In other areas, it is practical for electronical sensors
communicating through satellite or drones. Being into technology somewhat, I am
aware we even have amazing technology available to create small flying insect
looking objects that could be used as sensors to potentially monitor all along
the border. Silicon is very cheap and one of the most abundant elements on the
planet. Many of these types of advances can be created and mass produced in
large quantities for very low cost.

So there are significant options available for us to help our
agents in both the north and south to
secure our borders that would be far more effective than the one dimensional
(and almost dense) statement, “we need a medieval type wall”. Using technology correctly will allow us to
focus attention on the more serious efforts of tunnels, submarines and aircraft
used to smuggle massive amounts of drugs, weapons, and other contraband into
our nation. It will also allow us to focus on ports of entry screening as well.
The solutions are potentially simple, and less costly than a two-dimensional,
flat thinking border wall concept. A border wall is NOT a holistic solution to
the multi-faceted problems we face at the borders.

And getting the politicians in Washington to agree, Trump doesn’t
get it at all and completely shot himself in the foot! For campaign rhetoric, I
admit it was an aggressively brilliant move for someone with sociopathic
tendencies and few boundaries or morals to blah blah about the wall and make
race a central nerve point to stir his base and drudge up the sludge of
prejudice in the hearts of some of his followers. But it was one of his most
foolish blunders when it comes to practical governance because now, the wall is
all about him! And even if, for some reason, Mexico was going to eventually pay
for the wall through confiscations from Drug Cartels etc. (that is how I would
see it), it was senseless and foolish to “BIG Shot” it and tell the entire
Mexican government they were going to pay for it! That is arrogance, pomp, and
simple “hot air” right from the start and should never be coming from any of
our leaders, much less the President! And, by the way, this was supposed to be
from the great negotiator? That is a terrible
way to negotiate with a friendly nation! The concept of Mexico paying for the wall
was DOA. It was a non-starter and he had to have known it! He simply used it
for his perfectly ego driven soul, to build crowd chants and manipulate his way
into the White House.

Today, here and now, even if a majority of Americans wanted a
physical barrier on that border, for America and Congress to “bow their knee to
Trump” on the matter would be more than this nation could likely “stomach”
because it now symbolizes Trump “strong arming” his childish way over the will
of the people. That is likely more than we should handle unless it was truly an
emergency of epic proportion, which it is not. I don’t believe we really want
to coddle a wannabe dictator and reward his childish behavior. That is not in
America’s best interest, and for that reason, the wall should wait (a little
bit). What Trump did was NOT the way to negotiate anything! And besides, no one
wants the symbol of the Statue of Liberty to be replaced by a Trump wall,
except probably Narcissist Trump and his most loyal minions. Speaker Pelosi and
Senator Schumer brilliantly declared such on national television during the
embarrassing and debilitating Trump shutdown debacle (December, 2018 – January, 2019). Nicely done!

From my viewpoint, I won’t say wall or no wall, or even partial
wall for that matter. Honestly. I need to know and understand more. But if I
did want a wall, unless it is truly an emergency, if I eventually declare candidacy
and am elected President, I would not ask for such until I KNOW all residue of
Trump’s name is out of the discussion! This isn’t because I hate Trump or
anything like that. This has to do with the symbol the wall now represents and
how that would damage our nation. Symbols are
important! They are important for individuals, groups, and nations. If or when I did seek money for a wall as
part of the holistic solution, I would do so publicly, but quietly. I wouldn’t
make it front and center. It should not be about HIM or anyone else. Right now,
if a wall is built, it would still be the Trump wall. That cannot be for this
nation.

Symbols are very
important to a country and a people. And the symbol of Racist Trump must be
eradicated from this Great Nation as soon as possible, and a wall will not do
it right now. The exception where all this is set aside, of course, is a
condition of a true national emergency. That would take precedence over
anything else in my opinion. But personally, I don’t see that coming anytime
soon, unless Trump screws up foreign policy south of Mexico and the presence of
Russia and China creates it. Hopefully that won’t happen and Trump will fill
the vacuum of support he jerked out from under them recently. (Please
understand this last statement I am making based off of publicly available
news. I am aware there is an entire world of intelligence I have no access to
which could completely change this opinion).

Border Security is very important, but so is the way we handle immigration. Right now, both are complete failures in my opinion. In the same way I want to holistically solve healthcare in a way that perfectly matches America’s DNA (see the topic below), I want to also look at Border Security and resolve it. I don’t have enough information to give a true, solid opinion on what exactly we should do. But, in time, if a candidacy is declared, I will. At the moment, I am pretending I am a candidate running for President, so, as a result, I eat, sleep, and drink these problems and issue. I think about them constantly. If things move forward into reality, however, that passion will only multiply and we will find solutions to difficult problems in this nation! Rest assured, America!

The above section is written in the form of an assumption that on some future date, I will have declared a candidacy for President and will have won the 2020 election. I have not declared any candidacy for President yet.